Tech-Ed 2006 Webcasts

Microsoft has published some free webcasts, that will give you a preview of what you can learn at Tech-Ed 2006 in Boston in June 11-16. These pre-Tech·Ed 2006 webcasts enable IT professionals and developers to explore current and soon-to-be-released Microsoft technologies and evaluate a wide range of products and solutions for today’s IT environment. Get … Read more

Installing IIS7 on Windows Vista

David Boschman has done a nice post on how to install IIS 7 in Windows Vista, with screenshots of the whole process. The key pillars of the IIS 7 release are: Unified platform delivering a single, consistent developer and administrator model for Web solutions. Enhanced security and smaller, independent components to reduce attack surface. Flexible … Read more

MSCOM article on moving to x64

The TechNet Magazine (May-June 2006) included an article: “Inside Microsoft.com Moving Microsoft Update Downloads to x64” about why the Microsoft.com (MSCOM) Ops. team moved the Windows Update site to x64. The MSCOM Ops blog has also posted a response: “User Mode or Kernel Mode…Which Caching Method Did We Use” to the article. Read the article … Read more

Windows PowerShell

I’ve previously posted about Moned/Microsoft Shell…, it now has a new name, which is Windows PowerShell. It will be available as web download in Q4 later this year. Read more about it on the new PowerShell blog. Windows PowerShell is a new task-based command line shell and intuitive scripting language for system administration that provides … Read more

IIS 7 resources

David Boschman has collected all the public information available on IIS 7 and listed them together as a complete list of resources on Internet Information Services 7. So if you are looking for IIS 7 information, it’s a great place for an overview. Read more at source.